Summer Boost Teacher

Summer Boost 

Teacher

(Hourly Rate Based on 2024-2025 Step on Scale)

As a Summer Boost Teacher, you will deliver academic instruction to students at RSU 21 based on established grade-specific academic standards and curricula. The goal of Summer Boost is to stem student learning loss and optimize academic achievement across K-12 mathematics and literacy along with social emotional learning.

Reports to:

• Summer Site Coordinator

Qualifications: Love what you do, working with students as a certified teacher

• Certified teacher with at least one (1) year of teaching experience 

• Experience developing and implementing curriculum, lesson plans 

• Experience collaborating with academic professionals to explore, pinpoint, and implement student learning opportunities

• Record of success collaborating with academic teachers and other personnel in a summer setting to provide constructive feedback for continual learning and improvement

• Experience working within a summer learning program or partnership 

• Technology-savvy: Google suite, smart board

Essential Responsibilities:

Professional Development and Program Planning 

• Attend mandatory central training sessions and online modules 

• Participate in separate pre-summer, on-site planning - to be scheduled by Instruction and Assessment Officer 

• Develop lesson plans for instruction based on targeted grade level standards and cohort-specific curriculum guidelines, in collaboration with RSU21 site coordinator 

• Connect lesson plans with theme of activities during program day and site’s guiding essential question

• Prepare classroom space to be conducive to student learning (e.g., ensuring students are in a quiet space with minimal distractions, etc.)

Instruction and Classroom Management 

• Deliver intentional academic instruction to students with focus on reversing summer learning loss in literacy and mathematics (at the elementary and middle school levels). A credit recovery model will be used at the high school level 

• Monitor student progress toward academic goals using all available tools, including online resources

• Enforce student discipline code

Collaboration and Evaluation 

• Collaborate with the RSU21 site coordinator, other academic teachers, and RSU21 specialists to bridge academic block with other planned program duties, including social emotional learning 

• Connect regularly with RSU21 site coordinator to ensure learning goals are on track to be met

• Participate in all mandatory staff meetings 

• Assist RSU21 site coordinator with compiling inventory of curriculum materials after conclusion of programming

• Participate in mandatory feedback interviews to review the summer outcomes

• All other duties as assigned

Reasonable Accommodations: RSU 21 will provide accommodations to an individual with a disability, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) or applicable law, who has made the district aware of their disability, unless doing so would cause an undue hardship to the district. 

Evaluation:  Performance of this job will be assessed at the end of the summer session in accordance with the evaluation rubric completed by the Summer Site Coordinator.

Summer Boost Schedule:

• Pre-Summer Boost - scheduled planning meetings, training and professional development, and separate on-site planning (to be scheduled by site management team) 

• Summer Boost - July 7 - July 31 (Mondays - Thursdays; 7:45AM to 12:15PM)

• Attendance at one family engagement event 

• Post-Summer Boost - miscellaneous “wrap-up” duties such as e.g., submission of end-of-session performance task rubric, curriculum inventory, etc.) which must occur immediately following the conclusion of Summer Boost program